Gigabyte B460 AORUS PRO AC mainboard / motherboard (Intel B460 Chipset) does not require a TPM 2.0 (Trusted Platform Module) chip for Windows 11 (Win 11), you only need to enable the Intel Platform Trust Technology (PTT) setting in your BIOS / UEFI
Microsoft's PC Health Check said I cannot update to Windows 11 but after I enabled PTT on my motherboard and ran the test again, it now qualifies for Windows 11. I was going to order the TPM chip but glad I did not waste money on it.
You can download the PC Health Check App from here https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/windows-11 . You will see the link at the bottom of the page.
I know a lot of people have been wondering if they need a TPM chip so I thought I'd post this as it might help someone, as I could not find anything specific to this motherboard when I searched online.
Note: You would still need to meet minimum hardware requirements, including processor / cpu, for Windows 11 though.
What is the purpose of these seemingly arbitrary multiples of 2
https://www.gigabyte.com/Press/News/1831
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Taipei, Taiwan, September 9th 2020 – GIGABYTE Technology, (TWSE: 2376), an industry leader in high-performance servers and workstations, today is announcing a partnership with Northern Data AG (XETRA: NB2, ISIN: DE000A0SMU87) to create a HPC mega-project with computing power of around 3.1 exaflops.
GIGABYTE will supply GPU-based server systems equipped with proven AMD EPYC™ processors and AMD Radeon Instinct™ accelerators from technology partner AMD, a leading provider of high performance computing and graphics technologies, to Northern Data.
Northern Data develops a distributed computing cluster based on the hardware at locations in Norway, Sweden and Canada, which in its final stage of deployment will provide FP32 computing power of around 3.1 exaflops (3.1 million teraflops and 274.54 petaflops FP64). The world's fastest supercomputer, the Japanese "Fukagu" (Fujitsu), has a calculation power of 1.07 exaflops FP32 and 415.3 petaflops FP64, whereas the second fastest, the US supercomputer "Summit" (IBM) has a calculation power of 0.414 exaflops FP32 and 148.0 petaflops FP64.
Thomas Yen, Sales and BDM at GIGABYTE Technology, comments: "We are very excited about this mega-project and the lively partnership with Northern Data. In cooperation with AMD, we are able to design, manufacture and deliver high volumes of servers in very high production quality within a few months. This has convinced Northern Data to equip its GPU-based HPC platform, which does rendering, deep learning or artificial intelligence, with GIGABYTE servers."
Sukh Dhillon, EMEA Commercial Channel Sales Director at AMD, comments: “We are delighted to be in collaboration with GIGABYTE and Northern Data, one of the global leaders in HPC computing. We look forward to working on this unique flagship project utilizing second generation AMD EPYC processors and AMD Radeon Instinct accelerators helping set superior standards for performance, security and scalability for the most demanding workloads.”
The hardware will be delivered in the coming weeks and months. GIGABYTE's high-performance servers combine AMD processors selected by Northern Data with a dedicated server architecture. In this way, GIGABYTE adapts the CPU- and GPU clusters developed
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